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Despite some embarrassingly blatant attempts by TV news to turn Shamima Begum into the nation’s long-lost sweetheart – at one point, the BBC started referring to her coyly by her first name – the jihadi bride keeps on digging the hole in which she finds herself.

Having given birth to the son she says she wants to bring back to live quietly at home, Begum could have named him something endearing – you know, like Harry. Harry would have been good. Instead, on the instruction of her terrorist husband, she called the blameless baby Jarrah.

As the historian Tom Holland pointed out: “If she’d wanted to signal that she was returning to Britain in peace, she might have considered naming her baby after...